Improvement in folding clothes-horses



H. G. & D. SNYDER. Folding Clothes-Horses..

Patented Jan. 20. I874.

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HENRY O. SNYDER AND DANIEL SNYDER, OF BRISTOL, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT lN FOLDING CLOTHES-HORSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [46,719, dated January20, 1874; application filed December 31, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY G. SNYDER and DANIEL SNYDER, both of theborough of Bristol, Bucks county, State of Pennsylvania, have inventedan Improved Folding Clothes Horse, of which the following is aspecification:

' The object of our invention is to rigidly connect the parts of afolding clothes-horse when extended by diagonal braces A hinged at theirinner ends to the central post B, and adapted at their outer ends toguidingrods D secured to the hinged arms F of the horse, all as shown inthe enlarged side View, Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing.

The complete clotheshorse is shown in the side elevation, Fig. 2, andplan view, Fig. 3; and consists, as usual, of a central post, B,

.havin g folding or hinged arms F, each of which each arm to the centralpost by a diagonal brace, A, hinged at its inner end to the post, andhaving an eye, h, at its outer end, which is adapted to a guiding-rod,D, secured to the under side of one of the linksa of the arm. Thisguidingrod D is bent or depressed at its outer end, so as to form ashoulder, k, which, with the diagonal brace, forms an eifectual lock toprevent accidental movement of the extended arm. By simply lifting thebrace, however, in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1, so as to clearthe shoulder k, it will offer no further obstruction to the folding of Ithe arm against the post, but will slide freely along the guiding-rod Dand be self-accommodating to the position of the said arm, as indicatedby dotted lines in Fig. 1.

We claim as our invention- 1 The combination of a diagonal brace, A, and

HENRY G. SNYDER. DANIEL SNYDER.

Witnesses J AS. LYNDALE, SAML. P. BANES.

